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Your online privacy matters

Internet has become a part of everyday life. An average American spent more than 30 hours online weekly. Internet has changed the traditional way of exchanging information. However, laws and public awareness have yet to catch up the need for privacy when involving technologies. Without online privacy, our everyday life actions are being collected and monitored. Our personal information should be something that we should be able to share on our own consensus.

Who might be watching you online

Corporations

Corporations are collecting data on their consumers. Those data are mostly collected for advertising purposes. Companies like Google record zillions of information, such as search history, emails, even personal preferences. And there is no way to opt out if you choose to use their services.

Governments

Governments are monitoring the Internet. The US government especially has launched massive surveillance of both domestically and internationally. The National Security Agency has been intercepting American's telephone and other digital communications illegally for over a decade.

Hackers

Hackers are trying to get your personal information mainly for economy gain. This can be easily prevented by security precautions such like strong passwords and antivirus. State-sponsored hackers are harder to prevent. Still, methods like encryption can be a good way to self-defend yourself.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

Government Surveillance: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security.

Clark Mindock New York – Independent Donald Trump‘s administration is planning to ask people applying for visas to live and work in the US, to let officials review five years’ worth of social media posts. The State Department will also ask email addresses and phone numbers, plus 15 years’ worth of work and travel history and the names and dates […]

By Elizabeth Piper | LONDON REUTERS Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. Local media have reported that British-born Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message moments before killing four people last […]

BY ALI BRELAND – THE HILL Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules. “Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet,” Lee said in a statement. “But now this engine of growth is threatened by the Federal Communications […]

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security powers. The agency is no longer collecting Americans’ emails and texts exchanged with people […]